Suicide moreover was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?

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The more one judges the less one loves.

The more one judges the less one loves.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

Conscience is our unerring judge until we finally stifle it.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night, or the last to awake in the morning.

Equality may perhaps be a right but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

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    The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. - George Orwell Quote

    The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.

    For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

    For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim’s time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

    We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

    We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.

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